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Elizabeth was buried in the cemetery on Worcester Common. The epitaphs from this graveyard were transcribed before the stones were buried. During a renovation of the Common in th 1960s there were reburials in Hope Cemetery, supposedly with the existing gravestones. There is a plot with a memorial stone there, but if there actually were stones transferred it hasn't been confirmed. A handful of old stones have been placed around the Bigelow Monument in the Common, but no list has been found of the inscriptions. The epitaph on Elizabeth's stone reads:

children of Elizabeth Rice and Ezekiel How:1

i. Patience, b. 10 June 1742
ii. Elizabeth , b. 12 February 1743/1744
iii. Ebeneze,r b. 4 November 1746
iv. Joel, b. 2 November 1748
v. Jotham, b. 17 June 1750
vi. Lucy, b. 20 April 1752
vii. Rebecca, b. 3 April 1754
viii. Ezekiel, b. 20 March 1756

vital records sources: Her birth is in Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester:1908), 154.

1. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester:1908), 105; "Worcester Births, Marriages, and Deaths,"" Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, vol. 12 (Worcester, Mass.: 1894), 143-4.